Shelby Cadwell
5057 Woodward Ave Ste 9306
Detroit MI 48202
shelby.cadwell@wayne.edu
Education
Ph.D, Wayne State University, expected May 2021, English – Film & Media Studies
M.A, Wayne State University, May 2016, English – Film & Media Studies
B.A., 2013, Wayne State University, English – Literature & Culture
A.A., 2010, Jackson Community College, General Studies
Academic Honors
2017 – 2018 Doretta Burke Sheill Scholarship
2016 – 2017 Dennis Turner Memorial Scholarship in Film Studies
2016 – 2017 Doretta Burke Sheill Scholarship
2015 – current Graduate Teaching Assistantship – Pilot Program for M.A. Students
2015 – 2016 Doretta Burke Sheill Scholarship
2014 – 2015 Graduate Professional Scholarship
2010 – 2012 Board of Governors Academic Grant
2006 – 2008 Michigan Merit Award Scholarship
Memberships
American Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Popular Culture Association
Professional Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant/Professor of Record, Wayne State University, 2015- Current.
“Introduction to Film,” Film & Media Studies, forthcoming Summer 2018.
“Basic Writing,” Composition, Summer 2016/Fall 2016/Winter 2017/Fall 2017/Winter 2018.
“APEX: Foundations in Writing,” Composition, Summer 2017
“Introduction to College Writing,” Composition, Fall 2015/Winter 2016.
Student Intern, Wayne State University’s Another Chance G.E.D. Program, Winter 2012
Administrative Support & Conducting Student Surveys
Teaching Interests
Film & Media Studies, Composition & Rhetoric, Literature & Culture
Conference Participation
Panels & Workshops Moderated
2018, Roundtable Discussion: “Teaching Get Out,” Pop Culture in/as Speculative Resistance, February 17
2018, “Enacting Power: Fans, Fiction, and Piracy,” Pop Culture in/as Speculative Resistance, February 17
2017, “Image and Power,” Rushton Undergraduate Conference in Language, Literature, and Culture, March 31st
2017, Audiences, Fandoms, and Reception: A Kino Club 313 Conference, February 16-17th
-Workshop: “Teaching Fanvids: Selecting and Contextualizing Against Diverse Media Experiences”
-Film Screening: For the Love of a Man with producer Joyojeet Pal
-Workshop: “A Brief History of Marvel Fandom”
-Keynote Address: “Framing Fan Fiction: Archival Infrastructures as Consent Negotiations”
2016, Knowing Our Students: Teaching of Writing Conference, September 10th
2016, “Adaptation, Remediation, and Transmedia Storytelling,” Rushton Undergraduate Conference in Language, Literature, and Culture, April 1st
Roundtable Discussion
2017, “Forming Fan Communities in Academic Spaces,” Audiences, Fandoms, and Reception: A Kino Club 313 Conference, February 16-17
Papers Presented
2018, “Aquatopias & Afrofuturism: Water, Motion, and Myth in Music Videos,” 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 14-18 (forthcoming)
2017, “‘Stories that hit the world like bombs’: Vertigo’s The Unwritten and the Limits of Dystopia,” MPCA/ACA Conference, October 18-22
2017, “‘This ain’t that kind of movie, bruv’: Decoding the Politicized Body in Kingsman: The Secret Service,” Visual Culture Symposium: Envisioning the Body Politic(al), April 14th
2017, “Derailing the System: Reading Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer as Ambicritical Dystopia,” 14th Annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: Comics Remixed – Adaptation and Graphic Narrative, April 5-7
2017, “Western Minds/Eastern Bodies: Reading Liminal Embodiment and Assimilation in the Planet of the Apes Series,” 58th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 22-26
2016, “Destigmatizing from Day One: Strategies for Building Mental Health Awareness in the Composition Classroom,” Knowing Our Students: Teaching of Writing Conference, September 10th
2016, “From Nothing to Nada: The Emergence of a Reconceptualized Proletariat Hero in American Fiction,” Global Movements, Local Stories: Diaspora, Migration, Representation: 14th Annual CMLLC Graduate Forum Conference, April 9th
2016, “Put Your Stinking Paws On Me, You Damned Dirty Ape: Reading Liminal Embodiment and Interspecies Relationships in the Planet of the Apes Series” Visual Culture in Context(s): 5th Annual Visual Culture Graduate Symposium, April 7th
Conferences Organized
2018, “Pop Culture in/as Speculative Resistance,” February 16-18
2017, “Audiences, Fandoms, and Receptions: A Kino Club 313 Conference,” February 16-17
Film Screenings Curated
2018, Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956), April 13 (forthcoming), with Professor Kevin Deegan-Krause and the Wayne State University Library System
2018, Get Out (Peele, 2017), February 16, followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Professors Lisa Ze Winters, Jonathan Flatley, Ronald E. Brown, and Ph.D candidate Kevin Ball
2018, Blade Runner (Scott, 1982), January 25, with Professor Barrett Watten
2017, It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1947), December 8
2017, Black Belt Jones (Clouse, 1974) & Black Dynamite (Sanders, 2009), November 17th, with local comics writer Andre Batts
2017, White Zombie (Halperin, 1932), October 16th, with Professor Chera Kee and Cinema Detroit
2017, Exiled (To, 2006), September 29th, with undergraduate student Paul Attard
2017, Ran (Kurosawa, 1985), April 7th, with undergraduate student Aaron Proudfoot and Profs. Chera Kee and Jaime Goodrich
2017, Mississippi Grind (Boden & Fleck, 2015), March 31st, with Ph.D candidate Lacey Skorepa
2017, 13th (Duvernay, 2016), March 3rd
2016, Cruising (Friedkin, 1980), November 18th, with graduate student Nathaniel Bell
2016, Misery (Reiner, 1990), October 21st, with Professor Chera Kee and WSU Knit Lit Club
2015, They Live (Carpenter, 1988), October 23rd
Departmental Service
2018, Invited Speaker for ENG 6004: “Teaching APEX 0500,” March 20th (forthcoming)
2018, Invited Speaker for ENG 6004: “Grading Contracts,” February 6th
2017, Invited Speaker for ENG 6001: “Utilizing CAPS Resources in the Composition Classroom,” September 27th
2017, Workshop Moderator: “Mental Health Literacy in the Composition Classroom,” September 8th
2016-2018, Member, ENG 1010 Course Committee (formerly known as the Basic Writing Task Force)
2016-2018, Mentor, Composition Program Mentoring Committee
2016-2018, Member, Composition Learning Community
2016, Workshop Moderator: “Work/Life Balance,” October 14th
2016, Workshop Moderator: “English 1010 Grade Norming,” September 23rd
2014-2015, Member, The President’s Commission on the Status of Women’s Public Relations and Marketing Committee
Extracurricular Service
2016-2018, President, Kino Club 313
2016-2018, Senior Contributor & Editor, Kino Club 313 Film & Media Blog
2017-2018, Treasurer Video Game Scholarly Interest Group
2016-2017, Vice President, Wayne State Comics Collective
2014-2016, Treasurer, Kino Club 313
Course Software/Technologies
Blackboard, Piktochart, Prezi, WordPress